TSK · Amos 4:7

I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the earth.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

"'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

"'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.